Knowledge-intensive Business Services: Processing Knowledge and Producing Innovation

Faïz Gallouj (1)

1 CLERSÉ - Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019

Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) can be defined as activities in which knowledge is both the input and the main output. The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, it seeks to describe a normal service transaction in terms of the various basic modes of knowledge processing and production used by KIBS firms. Secondly, it seeks to establish the links and boundaries between a normal transaction of this kind and innovation, whether produced within or through the use of KIBS.

Mots clés: Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS); Knowledge; Services; Innovation; Knowledge management; Competences

Domaines: Economies et finances; Gestion et management

Faïz Gallouj. Knowledge-intensive Business Services: Processing Knowledge and Producing Innovation. Economics and socioeconomics of services International Conference, University Lille 1, Clersé, Jun 2000, Lille, Roubiax, France. ⟨10.4337/9781781950203.00021⟩. ⟨halshs-01113809⟩